Torq’s Standard/Basic Review/Audition Music/Playlist
I have a standard playlist I like to use when testing pretty much any piece of audio gear, and it’s a bit long so you can expand it to see it.
Playlist/Track List
- A Case of You - Diana Krall (Live in Paris)
- Almost Blue - Diana Krall (The Girl in the Other Room)
- Alone Together - Chet Baker (Chet)
- Along This Road: Kono Michi (Yv) - Ottmar Liebert (One Guitar)
- Appalachia Waltz (version for Solo Cello) - Yo-Yo Ma (Solo)
- Baby I’m A Fool - Melody Gardot (My One And Only Thrill)
- Beautiful Love - Shirley Horn (You Won’t Forget Me)
- Better Together - Jack Johnson (In Between Dreams)
- Brasilia - Robert Len (Fragile)
- Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, Op.46 “Adagio cantabile” - David Oistrakh & LSO - Decca Sound: The Analogue Years 1954-1968
- California - Joni Mitchell (Blue)
- Chameleon - Trentemøller (The Poker Flat B-Sides, Chapter Three)
- Cold, Cold Heart - Norah Jones (Come Away With Me)
- Control - Overwerk (Conquer)
- Crystalline - Björk (Biophilia)
- Don’t Give Up on Me - Solomon Burke (Don’t Give UP On Me)
- Don’t Lose Your Steam - Gregory Porter (Take Me To The Alley)
- Ellis Island - Mary Black (Looking Back)
- Every Morning - Keb’ Mo’ (Keb’ Mo’)
- Gift from the North Country - Bob Dylan (The Freewheeling’ Bob Dylan)
- Hazey - Glass Animals (ZABA)
- Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix (Experience Hendrix)
- Inaudible Melodies - Jack Johnson (Brushfire Fairytales)
- Into the Mystic - Marc Cohn (Listening Booth: 1970)
- Isn’t She Lovely - Livingston Taylor (Ink)
- Jealous - Labrinth (Jealous)
- Just a Little Lovin’ - Shelby Lynne (Just A Little Lovin’)
- La Grange - ZZ Top (Tres Hombres)
- Learning How to Love You - John Hiatt (Bring the Family)
- Leather - Tori Amos (Little Earthquakes)
- Love on Top - Beyoncé (4)
- Maybe Not Tonight - Glen Hansard (Rhythm and Repose)
- Mining for Gold - Cowboy Junkies (The Trinity Session)
- Night and Day - Joe Pass (Virtuoso)
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen - Sam Cooke (Night Beat)
- Novocaine - Amber Rubarth (Sessions from the 17th Ward)
- One True Thing (Acoustic) - Jewel (Sweet and Wild)
- Partition - Beyoncé (Partition)
- Perfect Sense Pt. 1 - Roger Waters (Amused to Death)
- Red or Dead - Randi Tytingvåg (Red)
- Rise - Overwerk (Conquer)
- Samson - Regina Spektor (Begin to Hope)
- School - Supertramp (Crime of the Century)
- Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind (Third Eye Blind)
- Shining Moon - Cowboy Junkies (Whites Off Earth Now)
- Show Me the Place - Leonard Cohen (Old Ideas)
- Sing Sang Sung - Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band (Swingin’ for the Fences)
- Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield (Dusty in Memphis)
- Sonnentanz - Klangkarussel/Will Heard (Sonnentanz)
- Spectrum (Say My Name) [Calvin Harris remix] - Florence+ the Machine (Spectrum - Say My Name)
- St. Louis Gal - Cécile McLorin Salvant (Woman Child)
- Sweet Baby James - James Taylor (Sweet Baby James)
- Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap (Conditions)
- Talkin’ Bout a Revolution - Tracy Chapman (Tracy Chapman)
- The End - The Doors (The Doors)
- The Rat - Infected Mushroom (Army of Mushrooms)
- The Trawlerman’s Song - Mark Knopfler (One Take Radio Sessions)
- The Very Thought of You - Nat King Cole (The Very Thought of You)
- There Is No Greater Love - Ron Carter/George Coleman/Jimy Cobb/Mike Stern (4 Generations of Miles)
- There’s More to Life Than This (Live at the Milk Bar Toilets) - Björk (Debut)
- Titled - Christine and the Queens (Tilted)
- True Love Ways - Buddy Holly (Buddy Holly Lives)
- Twist In My Sobriety - Tanita Tikaram (Ancient Heart)
- Video Games - Lana Del Rey (Born to Die)
- Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed (Transfomer)
- Wasting My Young Years - London Grammar (If You Wait)
- When I Fall In Love - Nat King Cole (Love is the Thing)
- White Foxes - Susanne Sundfør (White Foxes)
- Wild Horses - Tim Ries (The Rolling Stones Project)
- Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here)
- Woodstock - Joni Mitchell (Ladies of the Canyon)
- Words of Wonder - Keith Richards (Main Offender)
- World Without End - A.A. Bondy (American Hearts)
- You Turned to Me - Elvis Costello (North)
- You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen (You Want It Darker)
And then if I get through all of that there are some albums that I like to listen to as entire albums:
Albums
- Carmen (Jessye Norman) [Bizet]
- Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolook
- Julia Fordham – Julia Fordham
- Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells
- Paul Simon - Graceland (1986 original release)
- Saint-Saëns – Best of Saint-Saëns [Saint-Saëns]
- Symphonies 5 & 6 (Karajan/BPO) [Beethoven]
- Tanita Tikaram – Ancient Heart
- Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes
- Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman